Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-05-12

It Is rumored that all the Touring mills
will shortly shut down and remain closed
all summer.
Fire In the basement press room oil TIT
Eau Claire Daily Leader damaged presses
and material to the extento OF 5 / 600 dam
| age 10 building, owned by A. ID, Buck o
Fall Greek. $1,000.
Il. q. Dun Geo. efbrtincreased business
Mt all interior eenters since the interstate
law went into effect.
The cashier OF a Joliet bank is missing,
likewise very numerous dollars,
Rev. DR.. Arthur .Donnelly, DIST. Nicholas
parish, New York, is announced as theshe'
cessor to the late Vicar General Quinn.
The men imprisoned in the Victoria coal
mine are thought to be lost.
j. u. Muir, who had been engaged ioi
many years logging at Lennahmoor, was
murdered at the railway wharf IN New
Westminster, b. c. by William Shaerer.
The cause OF the trouble between the men
is supposed to be a longstanding one.
Shaerer, who was disehn 'ging lumber from
a scow, deliberately walked up to where
Muir was standing and stabbed him repeat
eddy. Shaerer then threw his knife into
the water and quietly CAV himself up.
Muir died in a few Minutes, and on Exam
nation eleven stabs we're found between
the neck and lower part OF the body.
Oscar b. Farnham, OF Boston, aged fifty
years, OF the firm of Holt, Adams x Co,
attempted suicide by taking rat poison,
hanging himself to a gas fixture and turn
ing on the gas. He is a 81, o EN- beZzler,
and when pressed to explain certain
transactions refused.
Jefferson Davis has written a review OF
| Gen. Wolse.ey's Life of Gen. Lee" Mr..
Davis takes exception to man Of the Eng
lishman's statements, and while not lind
ing fault with the supcrlatiys opinion OF Gen.
Lees military ability, be shows very plainly
he considers Gen. Wolseley's criticisms
of other Southern leaders unjust and I'M
warranted.
A bill forming a state ~constabulary to
enforce the liquor law WA passed by the
Michigan house and given immediate effect,
The bill provides for the appointment by
| the governor OF state marshal, at a salary
OF 81, 200, with power TO appoint 1t force
OF deputy state marshals throughout the
state, who are charged with the duty ofen-
forcing the liquor law, and are paid by
the counties. The practical effect oil the
law is to take all prosecutions from the
| prosecuting attorneys and other local ON
GERS and give them to the state.
There Is trouble ahead for a number oh
| county seats in Dakota. A law OF last
winter provides that new elections for the
location of county seats may be held IN
all the counties where tho original or pres
emit location was made by less than q
majority vote, This is likely to raise par.
ticular cain in a good many places.
The private bank OF T. r. Heard, Rich.
mond, Va, has failed. Liabilities SOL,
900; assets S62, 600.
At Billings, Mont, n fire broke out in a
| range of frame buildings on Minnesota
| avenue, totally destroying NJ. b.. Rade,
makers saloon and damaging adjoining
buildings. The fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
A posto.ice has been established at
Mount Carmel, Cavalier county. OAK.
Pensions granted: M~innesota-D. Gala
| CHAN, st. Paul; J. Frey, La Crescent L.
| Quieglc (deceased}, Pelican Rapids; L. q.
St. John, Granger, o. Lewis, Grand Mead
ow. Dakota-H. c. Thorpe. Bridge water;
| O. Lund, vermiliion;D ID. Stewart, Arlington;
ID. Weekly, Miilett; j. Hyde, Vermillion; Z.
Brown, Canton, J.. Morton, Bridgewater.
The ezarina has donated 100, 900 rou
bles to Gen. dresser, project of st. Peters
burg, in recognition OF his services in frns.
trating the recent plot against the car 8
life, and the czar has granted him a pension
OF 5000 a. a reward for his services in ar.
resting nihilists.
Up to this time fourty four railroad com.
panies have filed with ths commission for
NAL petitions asking to be relieved from
section 4. Probably as many more lave
been received and returned for further in
formation. A much larger number has
been received from trade organizations,
private corporations and individuals pro
testing against the suspension oil section 4
in particular cases.
The car thinks no win commute the SEN
tence OF the nihilist assassins.
Marquis Salisbury is to be made a duke
in q few days.
James Grant, the novelist, died in Lon.
don. He was sixty-four years old.
The Mason City & Fort Dodge railroad
in Iowa, has flied its formal petition for
exclusion from the provisions OF the long
and short haul clause. The road is purely
q territorial road, but it crosses five trunk
lines, and does a greaE lea OF business with
them in freight for outside points.
Roscos Conkling has been remarkably
fortunate in his real estate investments at
Washington.
Secretary Whitney has decided to order
| the repair OF the United States steamship
Hartford, now at Maria Island, Cal.
The vile oiGen. Sheridani is quite serious,
ly indisposed.
The debate on the Tims-Dillon episode
in the house Ct ends, oil course,
in favor OF the Tory government.
The total number of deaths at Naniamo,
Il. C., number 10. The town is sorely in
need OF assistance.
+. c. Wade. OF the Winnipeg Free Press
editorial staif, was presented by Mrs. Wade
triplets-two girls and one boy.
Palmyra Wis., Special: Fifteen days
ago Charles Winchester, half owner Of the
Williams & Winchester Palmyra fourth.
mill, and who IA q retail store in Milwau'
kee. left the dinner table, took his departure
from his boarding place with his work
clothes on and oyercoat an his arm, and
has neither been seen or heard OF since
| His accounts are found ali straight. Hi
habits were exemplary, and he was strict
~ temperate. Hewas an only son OF Mr.
Winchester, of the Whitewater firm OF Win,
chester & Partridge, and was engaged ir
marriage to one OF W~hitewater's faires'
daughters. His relatives, friends, and
business partner are almost distracted
over his strange disappearance.
Col. Sam Ried of Washington is tn,
youngest man ever admitted to practic,
before the bar Of the United States su
preme court. He is a son of S. C.. Reid, dis
4 iluEhlNitth no u A2 ~ SihNtt ~
Mr.. kimball, superintendent of the lif,
saving service, says that there were NOR
wrecks, more rescues and more loss OF iii,
the past year thar in any year since tn,
service was organized.
Winnipeg Special: Trouble is expected al
the Canadian Pacific railroad shops short
", and the men are all preparing for it
The is annoyed because so many
men rave left recently for st. PAIL. and il
is rumored that the management will com
pei all workingmen to sign an agreement
making it necessary for them to give fiji
teen days notice before leaving.
At Odessa, a Russian fanatic ran amucl
and stabbed six Jews, killing two. He wal
arrested in a restaurant, where he attack
ed and injured a Jewish waiter. A mob o
Jews tried to lynch him.
Prince Frederick Leopold, grandson o
Emperor William and only son OF PrinS,
Karl OF Prussia, arrived recently in Chica
go.
Sir John Macdonald stated in parlia
ment at Ottowa, that the Canadian par
lament would contribute an annual sub
sidy OF $75,O 900 in aid of the Pacific mai
service, on condition that the imperia
government would grant $500, 600 annual
ly. The service proposed WAS a tri-month
" one between V%oncouvsr md Hon.
Kong. Tie answer OF the imperial govern
ment has not yet been received.
Postofice Inspector James ar
rested a carrier in the Grand
Rapids office named James l.. Harris
| cha rging him with robbing mails. Tw,
deooy letters containing money were fount
on him.. The depredatio1s have been goin
on for two months. Letterst to banks am
business houses were rifled, thu total steal
ings reaching IS, 600 in cash and drafts
He is in jail.
The interstate commission have receives
a note from the board Of supervisors Of st
10, st. Croix county, Wis., signed by i
Baker, chairman, and John Packenham
clerk, asking for a copy o. the formal APP
plication OF the Chicago, st. Paul, Mime
apolis Il Omaha railway for a suspension
Of section four, and desire that a day b
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